Wrires Leo Odera Omolo In KIisumu City

AT least forty {40} people were this evening rushed to the various Hospitals in Kericho Town for treatment of serious bodily burnt ,which they sustained while siphoning fuel from an overturned fuel oil tanker..The incident occurred at about 4.30 PM local time when the tanker was negotiating a sharp corner near Kaitui Trading Centre, which is located about 15 kilometers north west of Kericho Town on the main Kericho –Kisumu-road..

According to account by an eye witness more people’s are suspected to have received serious burnt, but run into the villages for fears of police arrests. At least one charred body of a man is still shouldering in smoke at the site uncollected. It could not be established immediately as tom how many people have died.

The District Commissioner for Kericho Mr.Njora and the Officer Commanding the Police Division {“OCPD] were among the first people to arrive at the venue of the accident. Those who were rushed to Hospitals by good Samaritan had severe burnt,

This particular accident come only two days after the police were forced to use fierce dogs to disperse hundreds of rowdy people who were siphoning fuel from another tanker which overturned at Chula=Yimboi about 18 kilometers out of Kisumu City. The tanker was heading for Busia border post and eventually to Rwanda when it overturned. It took policemen two hours to clear the site of the villagers who defiantly refused to disperse.

The two incidents reminds Kenyan people of the worst fuel tanker accident at Salgaa in Nakuru district where the truck exploded and killed more than 200 people while injuring well over 300 some of them permanently deformed for life.

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:50:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: ANOTHER OIL TANKER INCIDENT CLAIMS SEVERAL LIVES IN WESTERN KENYA.